This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Reminder that Blender is struggling with funding right now. https://topicroomsvfx.com/news/the-price-of-free-blenders-funding-crisis/
Make sure to leave it a few bucks if you use it. https://fund.blender.org/
Whenever I download a new version of Blender I typically throw them $10 - $15.
Just like with other open source software I use, I give it a shot and if I like it I'll throw them $10 - $15 each time I update.
Edit: It's not much but it's not nothing. No raindrop feels reasonable for the flood and all that.
thank you for your support to FOSS!
For each update? I'd be the one with funding issues if I'd do that :D
Going into debt running Tumbleweed.
Sweats in Arch
If you pay per package, you get shaken down whenever GCC is updated.
That’s why they do it. A lot of people can’t afford to donate to software, so for those who can, it’s nice to make a sizeable contribution.
You do a lot, and thank you!
I also hope the studios behind the film made sure to pay a solid donation.
More than 99% of users including me
That's more than I can afford to be donating right now
I didn't hear they're struggling? Its not like they can get more money and instantly increase the scope and just toss stuff on, people compare them to for profit companies who need to make a profit for investors, the amount of money they have would obv be less
Like they wont shut down anytime soon, but more miney will definitely lead to more features. Personally want to see simulation improvements, its just so poor compared to embergen/houdini.
Hopefully Deep Funding becomes popular enough that it no longer becomes a problem
And it's European! 🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺
Nuh uh, headline. I bet the soundtrack wasn't made in Blender
There was somebody crazy enough to make an entire game in Blender, I don't doubt that somebody has at least tried to make a soundtrack in Blender.
Blender used to have a games engine built into it. It was actually kinda fun but shit, they axed it once Unity became king.
You can draw sound waves with grease pencil so it should be possible
I wouldn't be surprised. I like this one where the guy reproduces an entire functional/usable physical camera within Blender.
Magnetized needle and a steady hand.
Well-deserved win! Watched this in the cinema a few weeks back. What immediately struck me about the beautiful art style is that it felt more like what you’d expect from a labor-of-love indie game than from a dreamworks/pixar studio – and it was incredibly refreshing! Also, for a movie where water plays a big role, the fluid rendering was absolutely breathtaking. I could almost smell the warm plastic air of a GPU giving its all.
Rendered in EEVEE? Really? Wow! Considering you get so much more optical fidelity with Cycles it's really astonishing they've used EEVEE.
The creator favoured speedy feedback on everything. And it's not like you can't make things look gorgeous in EEVEE, why go for fidelity when you can make things look nice.
FYI EEVEE now supports ray tracing so lighting can be much better than before with much less hassle. cycles is obviously better for pbr but EEVEE can easily be used for more stylized renders, and probably be preferred.
The fact that all the textures look painted explain why eevee was used. There are frames in this movie that look like literal oil paintings.
I liked the movie, but my (small) kids cried a lot during and after the movie.
Hahaha yeah same, was not expecting it to get on top of them so easily.
I feel like young kids these days are desensitized to scary imagery (ghosts and ghouls and blood and guts) but take jeopardy or peril really hard.
Wanna watch it with my 6 and 9 year olds soon. Is it that sad?! I skipped through it and it looked nice.
Its not that its sad so much as there is a lot of stress and peril and the ending isn't really happy or sad. Its a complicated movie that falls outside the disney format of "bad thing happens, good guys badn together, day is saved and everyone is fine".
It feels like its exploring themes of loss and moving forward. But theres some moments where I genuinely have no idea what happened.
I kinda like exposing my kids to that though. The movie didnt spoon feed you answers and encourages you to draw your own conclusions. My 10 year old was hooked by the halfway mark but my 5 year old was like this the entire time 🫣
It's not sad, but there's a lot of anxiety inducing moments.
But the thumbnail, isn't that just the album cover from Nirvana's Nevermind?
If you remove the fishes, replece the cat with a baby, and add a dollar on a fishing hook, it's literally the same.
Family liked it, especially the kids, but the ending was like, wait what? It’s over?
I realized part way through the title works on a few levels. It was refreshing to realize this wasn't remotely following the 3-act narrative structure and I had no idea what was happening next.
Any good places where one could stream this?
HBO Max. Or else you can rent it from digital sites
